Ukraine War: Three Hours of Talks Between Witkoff, Kushner and Putin in the Kremlin’s Red Room, but No Notable Breakthrough

Three hours and 10 minutes of talks in the Kremlin’s Red Room produced no immediately visible breakthrough. Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met Vladimir Putin on Saturday evening before heading to Kyiv the following day.

The meeting was officially described as “rich in content, constructive and extremely open.” But the central question remained unanswered: what, if anything, had been achieved? The answer depended on the discussions the two American envoys were expected to hold in Kyiv after their stop in Moscow.

Witkoff and Kushner arrived in the Russian capital early Saturday afternoon aboard a U.S. military Boeing C-32A. Kirill Dmitriev, an economic adviser to Putin who has repeatedly taken part in contacts between Russia and the United States on both sides of the Atlantic, received them.

Dmitriev had not appeared during the surprise visit to Moscow on Aug. 25 by CIA chief John Ratcliffe. That trip was reportedly intended to warn Putin against the temptation to escalate. The supplied article ends while beginning to develop that earlier episode.

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rich in content, constructive and extremely open